Game apparatus.



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(Application filed Oct. 16, 1900.)

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' UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JOHN MOLOUGHLIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 665,123, dated January1, 1901.

Application filed October 16, 1900. Serial No. 33,199. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J oHN MOLOUGHLIN, a citizen of the United States,residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented certain Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to apparatuses whereby games may be played; andit consists of a gameboard and pieces or men adapted to be moved overthe board. The face of the board is divided up into squares or divisionsof alternately-contrasting colors,

tints, or shades-as red and black, for example-and certain of thesquares or divisions at opposite sides of the board are marked withsignificant distinguishing characters. The pieces or men are in twosets, those of -one set dilfering from those of the other set in coloror tint, and these men are marked with distinguishing characterscorresponding, with those on the squares on the board.

In the accompanying drawings,whicl1 illustrate an embodiment of theinvention, Figure 1 is a plan view of the board forming a part of thegame apparatus. Fig. 2 represents some of the marked pieces or men ofone set, and Fig. 3 represents some of the marked men of the other set.Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the pieces.

In Fig. 1, A represents the game-board, which may be made to foldbookwise along the line so. This board is subdivided on its face intoone hundred squares or divisions, which alternate in color or tint inthe manner of an ordinary chess-board. They may be red and black, forexample; but the colors are not important.

At opposite sides of the board three rows of the squares of one color ortint at, .here shown as black squares, are marked withsignificantcharacters b, the mark on each square being different fromthose on all of the others. The marks chosen herein are the star, thecrescent, and the disk, the first row of five squares being marked,respectively, with one, two, three, four, and five stars, the second rowwith one, two, three, four, and five cresoents, and the third row withone, two, three, four, and five disks. Thus the opposite sides of theboard have the squares marked in the same manner, the numberingbeginning attheleft of the player.

The pieces B (seen in Figs. 2, 3, and 4:) are marked in the same manneras the squares on the board. There will be fifteen pieces .in each set,those of one set contrasting in color or tint with those of the otherset. It has 'not been deemed necessary to show every piece in the set,as they may be all exactly alike except as to coloring and marking, andthe markings b on each piece of the set corresponds to a marking in theset of markings on the board-that is to say, of each set of the pieces Bfive will be marked with stars,

from one to five in number, five will be marked with crescents, from oneto five in number, and five will be marked with disks, from one to fivein number. Each piece belongs to the square bearing the same mark orcharacter.

Obviously the markings need not necessarily be stars, crescents, anddisks. They might, for example, be crosses, triangles, and

rectangles, respectively, or letters, as A,

B, and O. The point is thatin the markings of each set of squares on theboard and in the markings of each set of pieces there shall be threecharacters andfive markings of each character where the board hasfifteen pieces in a set.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A game apparatuscomprising a board having divisions, the alternate divisions in thethree adjacent rows at opposite sides of the board being marked withcharacters, each row having a diiierent distinguishing character, andthe divisions of each row being distinguished by the number of thecharacters ticular characters marked there0n,and pieces, equal in numberto said marked squares and marked, respectively, with characters likethose on the squares in kind and number.

a. A game board having divisions, the three adjacent rows of divisionsat opposite sides of the board being marked each row with a differentcharacter, and the alternate divisions of each row being distinguishedby the numbers of said characters marked there- 10 on, substantially asset forth.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 15th day ofOctober, 1900, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN MOLOUGHLIN.

Witnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, PETER A. Rose.

